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potassium

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n a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite

Orocobre Completes Long-Term Pump Testing at the Cangrejillos/Salinas Grandes Potash-Lithium Project Highlights - Long-term pump testing completed on five test-production wells. - Pump testing shows that brine volumes can be extracted from wells from the shallow potassium-lithium resource at a sufficient rate and concentration to support modest potash and lithium production. - Brine grades stabilized during the pumping tests with some variation in average grade between holes. - Test work since ...
June 11, 2013 - Marketwire

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Marshall Brain in Sun-Sentinel Sodium, chloride, potassium and water -- that's [mostly] what is coming out in sweat,said Marshall Brain, the founder of the website howstuffworks.com. "There isn't some magic sweat gland filtering out toxins through the skin."